For Addiction Awareness Week, Jeremy Hookerโs poignant masterpiece chronicling efforts to combat the alcoholism that contributed to the death of his wife Mieke, based largely on his journals over a 10 year period from 1997 - 2007. A tough but beautiful read. Published by @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social
24.11.2025 13:01 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Editor, publisher and translator Tony Frazer founded Shearsman magazine in 1981, shortly followed by @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social, with more than 900 poetry & poetry-related publications now in print. Browse and buy their new & recent titles at #smallpublishersfair25, London, Fri 24 / Sat 25 October
19.10.2025 10:54 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Eliza OโToole โ Laurel Prize: Below the Surface ๐
On A Cranic of Ordinaries (@shearsmanbooks):
โ99% of writing is thinking. My practice is a lifetime of voluminous readingโlaw, botany, philosophy, etymologiesโall percolating into poetry.โ
๐ Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...
18.09.2025 08:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Two from Shearsman: A Review
Clioโs Ground: New and Selected Poems, Fergal Gaynor, Shearsman Books, 2025, ISBN: 9781848619654, ยฃ10.95 Buying the Farm (a georgics of sorts), Eliza OโToole, Shearsman Books, 2025, ISBโฆ
Review time, with two Shearsman titles:
ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/t...
#poetry
@shearsmanbooks.bsky.social @disruptedblue.bsky.social
22.09.2025 11:37 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
And those of you outside the UK will be able to order the humongous Sobin Collected Poems from the Usual Suspects amongst the online retailers. If you're in the US do NOT order from us in the UK as postage will be about $50: got to Indiebound, Barnes & Noble online, or, yes, Amazon.
17.09.2025 19:13 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Book cover shows the author, Gustaf Sobin, at his writing desk.
And now for a new book. Just out here, although we don't actually have physical copies yet, is Gustaf Sobin's Collected Poems, all 738-pages, in both paperback and hardcover editions. In the UK we can supply from stock (once we have some, which will be next week.)
www.shearsman.com/store/Gustaf...
17.09.2025 18:57 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Cover of Petra White's book, That Galloping Horse, with a photo of the author.
and while we're talking about prices, Petra White has been shortlisted for the Poetry Prize in the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards.... Prizes are given out next week.
17.09.2025 18:49 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
We've just arrived on BlueSky. First up we'd like to tell you that we have three titles shortlisted in the Laurel Prizes for 2025. The Prize is being awarded 2 days from now but for now we're going to introduce you to the three books. See next posts.
17.09.2025 18:38 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Writer, literary historian, book reviewer based in Oxford, UK
jennylmcauley@gmail.com
Liverpool
Sound, radio history, poetry, birdsong.
Wild Track (Bloomsbury Academic)
Running Out of Time (Shoestring Press)
Writer and President Emerita of PEN International
www.jenniferclement.org
A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social.
poetrysociety.org.uk
linktr.ee/poetrysociety22
Writer, artist, experimenter, ordinand, hedgeling.
Poetry Dr @Prayer.
The Book of Yona (Shearsman, April, 2024)
Editor (Guillemot Press) PhD/AuDHD
The Michael Tippett Musical Foundation is the Charitable Trust established by the composer to encourage the music of the future.
The Sir Arnold Bax Society was founded in 2024 with the intention of sponsoring and promoting Bax's music, through performances, recordings, and the publication of critical-performing editions.
https://sirarnoldbaxsociety.com
Dr Carrie Etter, in association with various filmmakers, authors, etc., is researching and creating ecopoetry films. More information as we go!
Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at U of Bristol | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the ๐โโฌ! | Foodie | Dem ๐บ๐ธ expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
Academic, poet, translator, & editor of CHA, Voice & Verse, HK Studies, & The Shanghai Literary Review. Junior Fellow @ HK Academy of the Humanities. Resident @ IWP Fall 2023. Email: t@asiancha.com | Originally from Hong Kong, I'm currently based in Paris.
Salt Publishing | Est. 1999
Independent & family-run.
Fiction, poetry, horror, history, crime โ beautiful books you wonโt forget.
Poet, accountant, dancer. Debut collection MORE THAN WEEDS out with Nine Arches Press. https://linktr.ee/lkiew
Independent publisher of contemporary poetry since 2008, home of Under the Radar magazine. Made in the Midlands.
https://ninearchespress.com/
London-based independent publisher of fiction, poetry, anthologies & interdisciplinary projects, committed to championing the work of new voices in free-form contemporary literature.
https://prototypepublishing.co.uk/
Bloodaxe Books, Britain's leading international poetry publisher.
www.bloodaxebooks.com
Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social.
๐ https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
Celebrating books by artists, poets, writers, book designers and their publishers online and through the annual gathering, Fri 24 & Sat 25 October 2025.
linktr.ee/small_publishers_fair
official Bluesky account (check username๐)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app